The University College London Global Scholarship is a £15,000 opportunity offered to prospective international students seeking postgraduate admission to study at the United Kingdom’s capital.
The scholarship is open to students from all developing countries around the world.
Scholarship Summary
- Host Country: United Kingdom
- Category: Postgraduate Scholarships | Masters Scholarships
- Eligible Countries: All Developing Countries
- Reward: £15,000 Grant
- Deadline: May 8, 2025
Scholarship Details
University College London, officially known as UCL since 2005, is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London.
The University College London Global Masters Scholarship has up to 85 (eighty-five) scholarships available in 2025/26 with five aimed specifically at students from India.
The scholarship is awarded on the basis of financial need and upon the recommendation of the student funding.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for this scholarship, applicants must:
- Be eligible to pay the Overseas fee rate
- Come from a lower income background
- Have submitted a complete admission application (including the submission of references) for a full-time Master’s degree at UCL in 2024/25.
Please note: Distance-learning options are not eligible for this fund; students must be coming to the UK to attend UCL in person
Scholarship Benefits
Successful applicants of this scholarship will receive:
- £15,000, which is the value of the bursary.
- The scholarship is tenable for one year only unless the full-time programme is 2yrs in length. In that case the scholarship will be paid 50% in each year.
- The UCL Global Masters Scholarship may be held alongside other scholarships, studentships, awards, or bursaries. The amount of the UCL award may be adjusted depending on the total value of other funds received by the student.
- Scholarship recipients are obliged to inform the UCL Student Funding Office immediately of any other funding they are awarded towards their UCL Master’s degree studies, before or subsequent to the UCL Global Masters Scholarship being awarded.
- The scholarship will first be applied to the recipient’s tuition fees, with any remainder payable to the recipient in three equal instalments, throughout the academic year, towards maintenance.
How to Apply
To apply for this scholarship:
- To apply for the University College London Global Scholarship, click HERE to visit the International Masters Awards page for information on how to apply.
- The deadline for applications to this scholarship will be at 5 pm BST, Tuesday 8 May 2025.
- Shortlisted candidates will be contacted mid-June to provide evidence of financial need.
- When this has been assessed, successful candidates will be informed at the beginning of July
To apply for this scholarship, click HERE
To receive more scholarship updates, click HERE
